.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 357 220
Rank change year-on-year +95 -137 -64
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 735 308 807
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.72% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.91% 4.18% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 674 279 569
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,125 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £108,000 £85,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,641 7,374 14,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.23% 17.14% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,666 4,864 8,805
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 11 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +93 193 £57,500 - 45
North of England +38 179 £55,000 -8.33% 39
East of England +47 104 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands +33 100 £55,000 -8.33% 8
London -113 88 £77,500 +3.33% 84
South West -30 72 £52,500 - 5
North East -6 71 £65,000 +33.33% 10
North West +3 69 £55,000 -8.33% 21
West Midlands -2 59 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East Midlands +7 41 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -18 39 £47,500 -20.83% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.77%) IIS
3 11 (1.50%) CMS
4 7 (0.95%) Confluence
4 7 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.54%) Kentico
5 4 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.41%) DNN
6 3 (0.41%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.41%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 602 (81.90%) Azure
2 214 (29.12%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (20.54%) GitHub
4 135 (18.37%) AWS
5 134 (18.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 129 (17.55%) Azure AI
7 71 (9.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 31 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 31 (4.22%) Power Platform
9 27 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 25 (3.40%) Power Automate
11 24 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (2.99%) Serverless
13 21 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
13 21 (2.86%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.31%) Google Play
15 16 (2.18%) SaaS
16 13 (1.77%) Azure Functions
17 12 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.12%) Internet
2 6 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 359 (48.84%) MongoDB
3 150 (20.41%) Elasticsearch
4 131 (17.82%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.27%) Power BI
7 21 (2.86%) MySQL
8 17 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.63%) Redis
10 11 (1.50%) NonStop SQL
11 10 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.09%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.95%) GIS
15 3 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.41%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.27%) MariaDB
17 1 (0.14%) HBase
Development Applications
1 73 (9.93%) Git
2 16 (2.18%) NUnit
3 15 (2.04%) JIRA
4 13 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.36%) GitLab
6 8 (1.09%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.95%) MSI
8 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.68%) Postman
9 5 (0.68%) Snyk
10 3 (0.41%) JUnit
10 3 (0.41%) Selenium
10 3 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 100 (13.61%) Finance
2 75 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.35%) Advertising
4 42 (5.71%) Games
5 38 (5.17%) Marketing
6 33 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (3.95%) Retail
8 24 (3.27%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.59%) Law
10 14 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.50%) Music Industry
12 9 (1.22%) Banking
13 8 (1.09%) Legal
14 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.68%) Local Government
15 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.54%) Back Office
16 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 622 (84.63%) Developer
2 520 (70.75%) .NET Developer
3 94 (12.79%) Senior
4 68 (9.25%) Senior Developer
5 62 (8.44%) Software Developer
6 59 (8.03%) C# Developer
7 46 (6.26%) Lead
8 44 (5.99%) C# .NET Developer
9 38 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (4.90%) Software Engineer
11 30 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
12 29 (3.95%) Lead Developer
12 29 (3.95%) Senior C# Developer
13 22 (2.99%) .NET Software Developer
13 22 (2.99%) Senior Software Developer
14 20 (2.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (2.72%) Lead .NET Developer
15 17 (2.31%) .NET Developer - Fintech
15 17 (2.31%) Senior C# .NET Developer
16 16 (2.18%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 735 (100.00%) .NET
2 490 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 432 (58.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 228 (31.02%) CSS
5 226 (30.75%) HTML
6 220 (29.93%) Entity Framework
7 206 (28.03%) React
8 205 (27.89%) Blazor
9 195 (26.53%) AngularJS
10 177 (24.08%) RESTful
11 167 (22.72%) ASP.NET Web API
12 162 (22.04%) Vue
13 151 (20.54%) Node.js
14 140 (19.05%) .NET Framework
15 126 (17.14%) ML.NET
16 107 (14.56%) LINQ
17 77 (10.48%) REST
18 42 (5.71%) JSON
19 32 (4.35%) WPF
20 27 (3.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.70%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.72%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.59%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.31%) iPhone
8 14 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.36%) BBC
10 10 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.36%) Social Media
10 10 (1.36%) Social Network
10 10 (1.36%) Sports Betting
11 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.95%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (0.95%) Tandem
12 6 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.13%) Windows
2 17 (2.31%) Android
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (67.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 390 (53.06%) Agile
3 267 (36.33%) CI/CD
4 254 (34.56%) DevOps
5 210 (28.57%) Microservices
6 164 (22.31%) AI
7 137 (18.64%) Multithreading
8 135 (18.37%) Machine Learning
9 100 (13.61%) Scrum
10 90 (12.24%) Software Engineering
11 80 (10.88%) OO
11 80 (10.88%) TDD
12 66 (8.98%) BDD
13 62 (8.44%) Kanban
14 59 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (7.76%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 57 (7.76%) Mentoring
16 47 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (6.39%) SDLC
17 46 (6.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 684 (93.06%) C#
2 484 (65.85%) SQL
3 251 (34.15%) JavaScript
4 192 (26.12%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.40%) Python
6 16 (2.18%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.63%) Java
9 10 (1.36%) VBA
10 9 (1.22%) Bicep
11 4 (0.54%) Bash
11 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.54%) Ruby
11 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.41%) Go
12 3 (0.41%) VBScript
13 2 (0.27%) C
13 2 (0.27%) Dart
14 1 (0.14%) Delphi
14 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (8.16%) Degree
2 28 (3.81%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.81%) Security Cleared
3 21 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.09%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.41%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.41%) OCP
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.35%) QA
2 24 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.95%) NCSC
3 7 (0.95%) WCAG
4 4 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.41%) GDPR
5 3 (0.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
System Software
1 185 (25.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 163 (22.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.41%) Ansible
2 3 (0.41%) Grafana
2 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 493 (67.07%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.80%) Facebook
3 44 (5.99%) Google
4 21 (2.86%) YouTube
5 10 (1.36%) Apple
5 10 (1.36%) Sony
5 10 (1.36%) Yahoo!
6 9 (1.22%) Adobe
7 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.54%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.54%) Splunk
10 3 (0.41%) Alterian
10 3 (0.41%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.27%) IFS
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle
11 2 (0.27%) Sage
11 2 (0.27%) Veracode